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In the house we have a BT routerunder the stairs then 2 wired ubiquity access points which give pretty good wifi in the house.
Unfortunately the summerhouse in the garden gets only intermittent wifi. What is the easiest way to get decent wifi in the garden?
Would a powerline adapter work? Seems like they are a lot cheaper than anther WAP? If so any recomendations?
I simply put one of my APs on the windowsill of the back bedroom. Covers the whole garden and workshop/office then. Tried it in the loft and that was OK but windowsill seems better.
Granted, my AP is wireless mesh so I can move it freely, versus your wired APs.
I've got some Powerlines. They do work, but the connection seems flaky and often drops out - it's pretty annoying and unreliable enough that I can't rely on it for E.g. garage Zwift. Mine are kind of old though, perhaps modern ones work better. But if there's a Wifi route that works, I'd look into that.
If I could be bothered, I'd bury a Cat 5E cable and use POE* to place an access point somewhere in the garden.
*Power over Ethernet.
I'm still trying to get my head around this sort of scenario, as my mum's summer house ~5m from home outer wall currently has flaky wifi, barely gets a signal at all and often lots of no signal if you look at it in the wrong tone of voice (very frustrating for a web junkie like me, not so much for mum). I thought one of those ~£50 powerline kits would do the trick, plug one end in near router and the other end into a spare summer house socket...
But it turns out the summer house is on a different circuit, which apparently kills this solution dead?
The best unqualified idea I've come up with for her is to get a powerline kit and place the access point inside her home, but as close as possible to the summer house. This would be 3-4 metres closer to the back garden and the signal would then only need to get through the outer house wall, rather than an internal wall plus the outer wall.
There are so many individual variables that it is impossible to advise.
The general advice is to buy from a retailer with a good return policy & try, if it resolves the issue then great, if not return for a refund.
are you running a full Unifi setup or do you just randomly have a couple of (Unifi?) APs?In the house we have a BT routerunder the stairs then 2 wired ubiquity access points which give pretty good wifi in the house.
Was looking into this recently as we have a building at work a fair way from the main building (but still have LoS) and their point-to-point equipment seems to be surprisingly inexpensive!
https://www.broadbandbuyer.com/products/38029-ubiquiti-loco5ac/
Granted know very little about this subject so will be doing more research - I might have done it at home had I realised how little might actually cost! - my solution for providing internet to an outbuilding was an extremely cheap fibre-optic cable (between two extremely expensive fibre-compatible switches 😂)
Can you move one of the access points closer to the summerhouse?
Granted know very little about this subject so will be doing more research – I might have done it at home had I realised how little might actually cost! – my solution for providing internet to an outbuilding was an extremely cheap fibre-optic cable (between two extremely expensive fibre-compatible switches 😂)
Take a look at crosstalk solutions youtube channel, lots of setup / config videos, it’s a piece of the proverbial if you have los & can get ethernet to both radios.
You may want to use one of the long range AP from Ubiquiti though they are around £200. One like this https://linitx.com/product/ubiquiti-unifi-6-long-range-wifi-6-access-point-u6-lr-no-poe-injector/16686